Used 60 stitch count, even though the Malabrigo is smaller than the yarn used in the pattern. It’s a close-fitting sock. Next time I might go to 66 or 72 stitches.

I switched the pattern to a toe-up sock pattern, following the Mash Up Magic Toe Up Socks pattern, using the lace pattern from “go with the flow” as the decoration. I used the eye of partridge heel from the MUMTUS pattern and then went straight into the lace again over it. The transition is fine. After knitting more socks, tho, the height of the gusset on these and the height of the heel stitch feels chintzy, and I would make it longer next time.

When the sock measured 7” up the ankle from the heel, I switched to a size 2 needle, to give it more give up my calf, as I am going to take this a little longer and so I want it to fit well on my calf.

The one thing I’ll say is that a dropped stitch in this pattern is a big awful thing. I found I had to chase the dropped stitch through the lace pattern something awful. I also found that pulling the piece off of the needles to get back to where the dropped stitch ran to started a world of pain that ended in frogging more rows just to get things right again. Note to self - unknit rather than pull the piece off the needles for this stitch pattern!

In the second sock, I tried fixing mistakes by picking up stitches with a smaller needles a row below the mistake, but this still entailed reworking and unknitting because of the stitch pattern, it just didn’t work well, but was better than unknitting all the way down….

I bound off after the top purl row above the ribbing using the suspended bind-off with a size 6 needle (I have trouble with tight bind offs…). I really fretted over this bind off, trying all sorts of ways. Most of them flared way too much when the sock was off. It still flares a bit, but is OK.